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H. S. SMITH 8v G. PETTIGRBW. COMBINED SHEARS AND GONVEYER.

Patenteanec. 1o, 1889.

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" UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

HORACE S. SMITH AND CHARLES PETTIGREV, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN- ORS TO THE JOLIET STEEL COMPANY. OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,(361, dated December lO, 1889. Application filed May I0, 1889. Serial No. 310 472. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/s chute F, wide enough to include the delivery De it known that we, HORACE S. SMITH and from both shears, and open at the bottom, as CHARLES PETTIGREW, both of Joliet, Till at L,to deliver the billet upon the conveyer- 55 county, Illinois, have inventeda new and userollers G, which rollers, being constantly pful Improvement in a Combined Shears and erated, remove the billets, and they are fed Conveyer, of which the following is a full, through the opening L out of the way of the true, and exact description, reference being subsequently-falling billets. had to the accompanying drawings. The shears K K are operated by any suit- 6o' Our invention relates to an improvement in able mechanism alternately, so that while one io duplex shears by which metal can be sheared is rising the other is falling. In this way alternately into determined lengths or bili the feeding of two billets simultaneously to lets and the said billets automatically dropped the chute F is prevented, which otherwise from the duplex shears into a conveyer, by might fall in said chute and block the opera- 65 which they are removed to the place of use. tion of the machine.

i 5 Our invention will be readily understood The operation of our machine can now be from the accompanying drawings, in which readily understood. The metal to be slieared Figure l represents a plan of our contrivis fed in upon theV rollers B and directed by ance, and Fig. 2 a vertical section through the the switch D, under the control of the oper- 7o same. ator, as desired, to one side or the other of 2o The duplex shears here shown are dethe partition C and thence to the shears K scribed in an application, Serial No. 310,228, or K', as desired. The metal is advanced for Letters Patent of the United States tiled by the rollers through the open shears, as by Charles Pettigrew on the 10th day of May, shown at Fig. 2,until it is brought up against 75 188i), to which we refer for a fuller description, the stop E, Then the shear-knife K rising cuts and the particular form of conveyerhere specithe billet, and at the same time removes the iied is the invention of Horace S. Smith, for 1 gage-stop E from its path of motion, so that which application for Letters Patent of the it is fed onward by the rollers D D into the United 4States was made on the 21st day of chute F, and thence through the opening L 8c March,l889,to which we refer for a fuller deupon the conveyer-rollers G G, by which it 3o scription; and we do not limit ourselves to is continuously removed. lVhile one shears these particular forms of shears and conveyis operatin g to cut the metal the other is openers, except as specified in the claims herein, ing to receive the subsequent metal to be cut,

the object of our invention being to combine lVhat we claim as our invention, and dethe duplex shears with a conveyer, so that the sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-A 3 5 metal sheared from either shears shall be del. The combination ot the duplex shears livered upon the conveyer and automatically and conveyer located beneath the level of removed thereby. the delivery of the metal and the chute re'- A A A represent the rollers of a transfer-` ceiviug the metal from both shears and de- 9o table, to which the metal to be sheared is fed livering the same upon the conveyer, substanto by the rollers B. This table is provided with tially as described.

a dividing-partition C, which directs the 2. The combination, in a duplex shears, of metal to either one of the shears K K altera conveyer-table, a partition thereupon, a nately. The lower blades of these shears are switch for switching the metal to one or the movable, and attached to them are the gageother of the duplex shears, the duplex shears,

45 stops E E', which are raised when the cylintwo gage-stops operated bythe hydraulic cylders carrying' the shears are raised, thereby inders and alternately raised from the path allowing the onward movement of the sheared of the moving metal, a chute receiving the metal by means of the rollers D D, which metalwhen the said gage-stops and shears are roo may be continuously operated, or operated operated, and the conveyer beneath said chute 5o whenever it is desired to forward the metal. receiving the metalfrom both shears,substan In combination with the rollers D D is the tially as described.

3. The combination 0i' the alternately-0p naines to this specification in the presence of erated duplex shears K K', Johe chute F F, havtwo subscribing` witnesses.

ing laterally-inclined sides wide enoughto le- HORACE S. SMITH.

eeive the metal from both shears, the open- CHARLES PETTIGREVV. 5 ing L, and the eonveyer G beneath the open- Witnesses:

ing L, substantially as described. J. F. VILSON,

In testimony whereof We have signed our T. S. EMMERTON. 

